Bah, Stan double posted at https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup/issues/628 We've continued there the discussion. Sorry for the noise, Eric
On 19 October 2021 19:38:26 UTC, Arrigo Marchiori <ard...@yahoo.it> wrote: >Hello Stan, > >On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 09:56:18PM +0200, Stan Schymanski wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I am backing up my home folder to an external usb-drive and all of a >> sudden, the backup started failing due to the following error: >> >> ListError: 'Documents/somefile1.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: >> b'/home/user/Documents/somefile1.pdf' >> ListError: 'Documents/somefile2.pdf' [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: >> b'/home/user/Documents/somefile2.pdf' > >If you found both errors during the same rdiff-backup run, then it >probably means that the backup _did_ carry on. > >> Previous backup seems to have failed, regressing destination now. > >This is very strange because such a message should be at the beginning >of the output, not at the end. > >> I found out that they were pdf-files that I cannot open myself in linux, >> so I just removed them and started re-running the backup. > >Why could you not open them? > >If rdiff-backup had problems reading them, I would expect them to have >``funny'' permissions (for example no "read" bit). If permissions >were ok, then you may have a problem with your filesystem, IMHO. > >I hope this helps. > >Best regards,
